ELMER BERNSTEIN - THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (180G IMPORT LP)

Elmer Bernstein The Man With The Golden Arm on 180g Import LP

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score, Elmer Bernstein’s original soundtrack to Otto Preminger’s 1955 film, The Man With The Golden Arm, starring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker and Kim Novak, became the first all-jazz soundtrack to be used in a major Hollywood movie. Bernstein’s music was the perfect emotional match for Preminger’s heroin-addict/jazz drummer anti-hero (played by Sinatra), and is considered one of the best scores of the era. It is also credited with effectively changing the sound of American cinema by opening the floodgates for jazz music in film and on television. Bernstein himself would go on to score over 200 films, including The Ten Commandments and To Kill A Mockingbird.

Elmer Bernstein The Man With The Golden Arm Track Listing:

1.  Clark Street: The Top/Homecoming (ft. Pete Candoli)/Antek's
2.  Zosh
3.  Frankie Machine (ft. Shorty Rogers)
4.  The Fix
5.  Molly
6.  Breakup: Flight/Louie's/Burlesque
7.  Sunday Morning
8.  Desperation
9.  Audition (ft. Shelly Manne, Shorty Rogers, Milt Bernhart)
10. The Cure: Withdraw/Cold/Morning
11. Finale